I have a IBM think pad R51, I recently borrowed it out and it was returned with a dead battery. I plugged the battery chargeing adapter into the outlet and let charge for a day. When I turn on the laptop the screen is very dull, almost completely unreadable. The laptop appears to be functioning, but I cannot navigate because I cannot see the cursor. Is there a way for me to find out if the problem is the battery or the screen backlight?
My Repair shop tells me Fujitsu Siemens does not supply a backlight separately for my Amilo Notebook. Is this true? If not, where can I source a supplier? Regards JAn

The first thing to check is brightness of your IBM. May be the brightness is set very low. It may sound silly and simple, but we human can overlook simple issue.

Secondly, try using another charger. Not the battery. Recently, I had problems with one of laptop same model. I formatted and reinstalled windows etc...nothing helps. Just curios, changed the charger and surprise me...It worked alright.

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I had the exact same problem. I basically gave up and decided to reinstall the O.S. But when I did it gave me an option to upgrade rather than install, and I found that all my programs and files were still there after. So you coulkd do that. I found out that some of the O.S. was corrupt via a virus so this was solved also.

Ok so what you need to do is reinstall the Opertaing System. When system 32 files are missing then the Operating System dosent work. You would need to backup any stuff you need. If you have any other questions or need directions please email me at joegoetz16@gmail.com

This indicates a possible memory problem. Reseat the RAM modules and boot up, if OK then the laptop is OK.
If not then :-
If you have two RAM modules, remove both and insert one and boot up, if it is OK then repeat with the other one - this will determine which memory module is faulty.